Chapter 373 Auction Preparations
The last place the Zhong and Wu couple visited was the territory of the Blazing Sky Kirin.
Compared to the past when it would often slumber for many years, the Flaming Sky Qilin now comes to the Land of All Beings much less often. However, it has carefully selected other Qilin to come here and open shops... including the Sky Qilin cub that has already broken through its amniotic sac.
This little Qilin did not disappoint the expectations of the entire Qilin clan.
To build a better foundation, it absorbed the entire Qilin Nourishing Ginseng plant and obtained enough nutrients before it was born. Its efforts paid off, and it had already reached the sixth rank, third stage as soon as it was born!
This is simply unbelievable!
Afterwards, Little Tianqi diligently honed its skills. During this time, the Qilin clan provided it with abundant resources, allowing it to consume them at will. In fact, if it weren't for the Blazing Tianqi wanting to further temper it and enhance its combat power, it could have broken through again long ago!
Zhong Cai also made significant contributions to Xiao Tianqi's growth.
After Zhong Cai became a sixth-level alchemist, Xiao Tianqi had only been born for a short time and was still trying to adapt to his body. At that time, Lieyan Tianqi had already made many transactions with Zhong Cai and knew that Zhong Cai's talent was top-notch, so he asked Zhong Cai to research pills suitable for Xiao Tianqi.
Zhong Cai had already obtained a large amount of materials from the Qilin. Although this was a completely new subject, with the assistance of the alchemy simulation room, he spent only four months to create a pill that could nourish the Qilin. This seemed to have enlightened him, and in the following six months, he created four more pills specifically for the Qilin!
Of the five types of pills, the one for Little Heavenly Qilin is the first choice, but the other Qilins can also benefit from them.
So, with the nourishment of these elixirs, Xiao Tianqi continued to grow stronger and stronger.
Unable to suppress Xiao Tianqi's boiling bloodline any longer, Lieyan Tianqi finally allowed Xiao Tianqi to break through, and Xiao Tianqi took advantage of this momentum to break through to the middle stage of the seventh rank!
This happened seven years ago.
After that, Xiao Tianqi naturally no longer needed Zhong Cai's pills, but the Qilin clan still insisted on ordering them to train other Qilin.
At the same time, Lieyan Tianqi also made an agreement with Zhong Cai that as long as his alchemy skills reached the same level as Xiao Tianqi's, he would continue to help develop pills suitable for Xiao Tianqi, and the price they offered would definitely not be a loss for him.
Zhong Cai agreed.
Little Tianqi is now at the peak of the seventh rank.
The entire Qilin was majestic and powerful, its size exceeding that of some ordinary eighth-tier Qilins, only slightly smaller than the Blazing Sky Qilin.
It is conceivable that even if the Blazing Sky Kirin eventually perishes, this little Sky Kirin will be able to reach the ninth level before then!
The Qilin clan knew that Zhong Cai played a crucial role in this, so they had always maintained a good relationship with him.
No matter what kind of medicinal materials Zhong Cai needed, they would do their best to find them for her wherever they could find them.
Every time Zhong Cai traded pills to them, even if Zhong Cai never quoted a high price, they would often pay a premium.
Compared to the Moon-Gazing Wolf clan, the Qilin clan is less clingy, which is why they don't seem particularly close to Zhong and Wu. Furthermore, this clan always comes and goes in a hurry, leaving little time for them to spend together. However, in reality, the Qilin clan values Zhong Cai no less than the Moon-Gazing Wolf clan, and even invests more resources in her.
Zhong Cai also highly valued the Qilin clan.
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This time they were quite lucky; the couple saw both the Blazing Sky Qilin and Little Sky Qilin at the same time.
Two enormous Qilin emerged from the sea of fire, and Little Tianqi let out a rather mature roar.
"Master Qiu! You've finally come to deliver pills again! The clan has been without them for several days!"
Zhong Cai said with a laugh, "I've already been very diligent."
As he spoke, he tossed over a dozen gourds, each containing the same type of pill, with different qualities of the same type of pill stored separately.
The pills used by the Qilin were useless to other races, so Zhong Cai didn't keep a single one—she gave all the low-grade ones to the Qilin clan.
Little Tianqi "whoosh" spewed out a large ball of flame, which directly wrapped around the gourds.
Its control was so precise that it didn't harm the gourds in the slightest, bringing them directly to its front.
Zhong Cai smiled and praised, "Lie Jiao's technique is even more skillful this time."
This little Qilin wasn't always so controllable; several times before, it had almost burned the gourd and the pills together. If the gourd hadn't been a specially made, high-grade Xuan artifact provided by the Blazing Qilin, it probably wouldn't have lasted even a breath. Those times, it was precisely because the gourd had a certain amount of resilience that the Blazing Qilin was able to spew out a ball of flame to assist the little Qilin in controlling it.
Only then can those gourds be successfully preserved.
At this moment, the Blazing Sky Kirin let out several beastly roars that sounded like laughter, clearly quite satisfied.
Xiao Tianqi has indeed made a lot of progress.
The Blazing Sky Kirin spewed out another stream of air, carrying a string of mustard seed bags.
Zhong Cai took the items and examined them. Sure enough, the first three items were the usual ones—Qilin Fruit, Qilin Grass, and Qilin Blood—followed by various other medicinal herbs that grew in the Qilin Clan's territory, as well as a considerable number of low-grade Xuan Stones.
The transaction was successfully completed.
Zhong Cai waved to the two Qilin and took his leave.
The two qilins didn't try to stop them, but simply watched them go quietly.
They didn't say much because they had an agreement with Zhong Cai—the order for pills would be renewed after each transaction, and the required quantity of each type could be more or less.
This time was no exception.
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Zhong Cai certainly didn't waste the Qilin-related resources, such as Qilin blood, that he had acquired over the years.
He used these resources to develop a new series of elixirs, all of which were named with "Qilin" in their names.
For example, the Qilin Heavenly Blood Pill is a body-refining pill developed with Qilin blood as the main ingredient. Depending on the grade of the Qilin blood, different auxiliary ingredients are required, and the level of cultivators it can supply varies. Currently, the highest grade is level six, which is just right for Wu Shaogan to take. Zhong Cai has also refined and consumed many level five pills.
Take, for example, the Qilin Herb Pill, a healing pill with Qilin grass as its main ingredient. Its efficacy is 30% better than ordinary healing pills of the same grade on the market. Although Qilin grass is not cheap, which has driven up the price of the Qilin Herb Pill, this pill is not too difficult to make. People with good financial means are willing to prepare some so that they can recover faster in critical moments.
For example, the Qilin Nourishing Profound Pill uses Qilin fruit as its main ingredient, and different grades of fruit support cultivators in quickly recovering their profound energy at different realms.
For example, the Qilin Palace Building Pill uses sixth-order Qilin blood and sixth-level Qilin grass as the main ingredients, supplemented with a variety of other sixth-level medicinal materials. It can help palace building cultivators accelerate their palace building process.
For example...
All of these are things that Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan can use.
With Zhong Cai's alchemy skills, he was already very good at refining ordinary pills, let alone the ones he researched himself. So every batch of pills was full, and the number of top-grade pills was always more than half!
Even if the couple used it as food, they still couldn't use it all.
Therefore, Zhong Cai not only sold a lot to both factions, but also set aside a considerable portion to sell to the human factions in the Land of All Beings—several orders were placed before, when the two of them sent a batch to the shop of a Nirvana Realm expert.
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Having finally completed all the orders, the couple returned to their territory and arranged the prepared goods one by one on the shelves.
At the same time, they also collected the money they had previously paid for the goods that had been automatically purchased.
Before long, the previously empty shelves were filled with a dazzling array of goods again.
Zhong Cai took Wu Shaogan's hand and said with a smile, "Let's go back now."
Wu Shaogan nodded.
Zhong Cai then turned her head to look at Qing Hui, who had shrunk and was perched on her shoulder, and asked, "Do you want to stay here and play for a few days?"
Qinghui let out a "howling" sound and shook his head violently.
Zhong Cai understood, raised her hand and ruffled the little silver wolf's head, then said with a smile, "Then let's go back."
The little silver wolf stomped its feet on the ground, looking quite pleased.
Wu Shaogan put his arm around Zhong Cai's waist, released the Gate of All Beings, and went back with Zhong Cai.
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For decades, even though they had been selling resources of various levels in the Land of All Beings, the two of them had accumulated quite a lot of good stuff.
Because Zhong Cai produced more pills and had richer pill essence after reaching level six, even though he would sacrifice all his pill essence every few months, he has now accumulated 28 million pill essences—enough for 28 consecutive Golden Flame Pool runs.
Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan arrived at the altar on the ancient city tower and lay down together on the stone bed.
The two moved closer to each other without prior arrangement, until they were next to each other. Zhong Cai bumped her head into Wu Shaogan's chest, and Wu Shaogan put his arm around Zhong Cai's waist. Only then did they both breathe a sigh of relief.
It's still most comfortable to hug and cuddle like this.
Zhong Cai nudged Wu Shaogan and said, "Old Wu, let's discuss the quantity and specifications of the goods for this auction."
Wu Shao tightened his grip on her arm, leaned down and kissed Zhong Cai on the top of her head, then asked, "What does Cai think?"
Zhong Cai retorted, "You go first."
Wu Shaogan thought for a moment and said, "Let's start with level six resources, mainly high-potential beast eggs and fetuses, with a total of no more than ten pieces."
Zhong Cai agreed: "That's acceptable."
Wu Shaogan added, "We don't need too many level seven pieces; let's just select ten to twenty high-quality items."
Zhong Cai nodded: "We'll go to the 'Hall of Rites' and search around; we'll find as much as we can."
The couple has many resources, and only the most outstanding talents are sent to the "Gift Hall" so that they won't look bad when interacting with other top geniuses.
Therefore, the resources inside the Hall of Ceremonies are not for sale to the public.
Over the decades, I've accumulated a lot.
Wu Shaogan smiled slightly: "The auction will mainly focus on level eight resources, and you can choose fifty items."
Zhong Cai nodded again: "That's good."
Wu Shaogan smiled and said, "Twenty level nine resources are acceptable."
Zhong Cai understood: "Anyway, if you add all the resources together, you can get a hundred items."
Wu Shaogan nodded.
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After the two had basically determined the quality and quantity of the items to be auctioned, they began to discuss the upcoming ten-pull of the Golden Flame Pool.
Zhong Cai pondered for a moment and said, "This time we want higher quality items for the auction. Should we try using more Dan Yun to specify the resource level and improve the resource quality?"
After a moment's thought, Wu Shaogan understood Zhong Cai's meaning and said, "First, spend two million to upgrade the quality of every resource in the ten-pull, then spend one million Dan Yun to specify that this ten-pull should mainly consist of level seven resources?"
Zhong Cai said with a smile, "Old Wu really understands me!"
This involves using both of the functions of the "Kryptonite Rhyme" together, which allows you to obtain high-quality level 7 resources in a single ten-pull.
Wu Shaogan said, "This could potentially prevent us from drawing level eight resources."
Although level 8 resources are already very rare, you might not get one in a single 10-pull.
Zhong Cai indeed said the same thing: "The probability of drawing an eighth-level item is low, and we don't have many seventh-level resources saved up from before, so we still need to specify some good items." He stroked his chin, "We also need other levels of resources, so... let's just do two rounds of Ke Dan Yun, and keep everything else as it is."
Wu Shaogan did the math and said, "Then we'll use 600 Dan Yun for two more purchases, and the remaining 2,200 Dan Yun for a regular 10-pull."
Zhong Cai gave a thumbs up: "That's it!"
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Over the years, the two of them had never used this method of sacrificing with kryptonite, but they still had to try out the new feature, and now was the perfect opportunity to give it a shot.
The two made a decision.
Zhong Cai looked at the altar and said with a smile, "As I just said, three million pill essences will be used to upgrade to level seven twice."
As soon as these words were spoken, a large portion of the countless colorful clouds swirling above the altar suddenly separated and landed directly on the enormous altar.
Like moths drawn to a flame.
The golden flames within the altar churned and surged, as if nourished, suddenly expanding to almost break through the barrier above and enter the "transparent box" to scorch the clouds—
But in the end, it didn't happen.
Just before it was about to "touch" the barrier, at the last second, the flame suddenly lost its strength and quickly fell back into the pool, where it became entangled with the other flames.
Zhong Cai stared intently at the flames.
The next instant, twenty dark golden seals spewed out from within the flames.
Unlike the seals used in ordinary sacrifices, the seals seen now have some faint dark patterns.
Wu Shaogan stared intently at it and said in a low voice, "It's the number 'seven'."
Upon hearing this, Zhong Cai carefully examined all the envelopes.
Sure enough, every envelope had this pattern! At first glance, I couldn't even recognize it as writing.
Then, the two of them began to wait.
Of the twenty envelopes, six began to tremble rapidly, without producing any light.
Before long, the thick fog appeared and disappeared, revealing five high-grade mystic stones and a level four top-grade Void-Breaking Talisman.
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Zhong Cailai looked at it with a strange feeling and couldn't help but say, "This Void-Breaking Talisman was originally a high-grade one? After upgrading it to a top-grade one, the speed of running away will double! It's a good deal!"
Wu Shao chuckled dryly and said, "It is indeed a good deal."
A level four Void-Breaking Talisman can carry a cultivator at the Suspended Illumination Realm away, but this Void-Breaking Talisman does not actually tear through space; rather, it has a certain teleportation capability.
When a cultivator using the Void-Breaking Talisman uses it, the teleportation distance will be one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, or six thousand miles.
Therefore, the cost of the pill essence used to improve the quality directly doubled the value of the Sky-Breaking Talisman.
Even if the level 4 resources were doubled, it wouldn't mean much to Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan now, but what if they were of higher quality?
Therefore, the function of this Kedan Yun is still useful.
Of course, since the amount of Dan Yun that needs to be spent is too large, most of the time people just draw directly, using quantity to replace quality...
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Zhong Cai reached out and summoned back both the Xuan Stone and the Void-Breaking Talisman.
There are fourteen envelopes left.
This time, a ring of golden light shimmered, and two seals appeared.
Zhong Cai let out a breath.
The two envelopes contained level-five resources, one of which was a high-grade level-five resource and the other of a top-grade level-five resource.
Good.
Next, there are level six resources, only one of which is a top-tier resource.
There are eleven envelopes left.
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Zhong Cai said to Wu Shaogan, "When you're using the Elixir of Elixir, aside from the Mystic Stones, most of the remaining resources are level seven, right? This time we got three in ten pulls and two in another, so the majority of those two pulls were four and five items respectively... So there should be at least nine types of level seven resources." He said with a hint of regret, "It seems we won't get any level eight resources."
Wu Shaogan nodded and said, "The remaining two items are the minimum level nine resources."
Zhong Cai smiled and said, "Among the options for level nine resources, there should also be some that are of relatively better quality."
After exchanging a few words, their gazes fell once again on the numerous envelopes hanging above the altar.
Unsurprisingly, the nine seals then spun around three times in a dazzling display.
However, only seven of them emitted thick smoke, while the remaining two seemed to be holding their breath and did not move.
This isn't right.
Zhong Cai subconsciously looked at Wu Shaogan.
Wu Shaogan also looked at Zhong Cai at the same time.
The two of them suddenly smiled, then realized what had happened.
The remaining two items were probably originally level seven top-grade resources, but because the quality was improved by the Ke Dan Yun, they directly rushed to level eight, which is why they suddenly got stuck!
Only after all seven level-seven resources have been revealed will the other two seals be opened.
Zhong Cai burst out laughing: "You can do that?!"
Wu Shaogan chuckled and said, "That's probably how it was originally done."
The two looked at each other and smiled, then went to look at the level seven resources with great interest.
The resources are all quite good...
Among them are two seventh-order beast embryos, one seventh-order rare beast egg, a complete seventh-order, third-stage savage dragon corpse, a seventh-order top-grade cultivation technique, a seventh-grade top-grade Xuan sword, and a seventh-grade superior pill.
Among these resources, the animal fetuses and rare beast eggs come from relatively rare rare beasts and can be included in the auction shortlist. The seventh-tier savage dragon is another example.
Zhong Cai was very satisfied.
Wu Shaogan pulled Zhong Cai closer to his chest and, together with him, looked with great interest at the two unmoving envelopes.
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At this moment, the two envelopes began to shimmer with light again.
Zhong Cai counted them; there were four rings of golden light!
It really is a level eight resource!
Yes, they are all level 8 low-grade resources—after all, they were upgraded from level 7 high-grade resources.
After thinking for a moment, Zhong Cai couldn't help but say to Wu Shaogan, "Old Wu, even if we don't spend any Dan Yun this time, it seems like our luck isn't bad."
Wu Shaogan pondered for a moment and agreed, "There are two level-seven top-grade items that were directly drawn."
Zhong Cai was delighted: "The next twenty-two times, my luck must have been just as good!"
Wu Shaogan agreed again: "A Cai is right."
The two didn't talk any more, because at that moment, several options for the level 9 guaranteed resources quickly appeared before them.
Zhong Cai was already used to it and simply looked over.
After carefully observing the images of the options, the two confirmed their previous thoughts.
The quality of the options has indeed improved compared to usual.
There should have been many useless options, but this time there are several useful ones.
But this also has its drawbacks.
In the past, Zhong Cai could directly choose the best from among them, but now... he actually has a rare case of decision paralysis.
That's outrageous.
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Of course, Zhong Cai was ultimately successful in her selection.
One of them is the rare beast egg of a ninth-tier Azure Phoenix.
Although Zhong Cai also really wanted half a low-grade ninth-rank beast corpse, after thinking it over, he realized that he had obtained some ninth-rank flesh and blood before, and compared to rare beast eggs that could produce living creatures, half a corpse was still inferior.
Moreover, this auction is being held in the Land of All Living Beings, so whether it's a rare beast clan wanting to get another cub for themselves, or a human cultivator wanting to bid for a contracted rare beast, they can all sell it for a high price.
Let's stick with the auction.
The other level-nine resource is also quite normal; it's a level-nine superior-grade pill.
There will definitely be many powerful cultivators at this auction, and such high-quality pills are exactly what they need.
It can also fetch a high price.
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After selecting all the resources for Kedan Yun, Zhong Cai stretched and said with a smile, "The functions are really not bad."
Wu Shao chuckled dryly and asked, "So, will you continue doing this in the future?"
After pretending to think for a moment, Zhong Cai shook her head and said, "Then forget it."
Wu Shaogan's smile deepened as he ruffled Zhong Cai's hair.
Zhong Cai didn't struggle. He simply collected all the resources still hanging in the sky and then commanded, "Twenty-two more times, ten consecutive runs of the ordinary Golden Flame Pool!"
The altar was very obedient.
Countless colorful clouds suddenly descended upon the flames like raindrops.
The flames surged and rolled, spewing out large amounts of gas as always.
A full two hundred and twenty.
They hung in the air in a neat row.
Zhong Cai glanced up casually.
Wu Shaogan then began to play with Zhong Cai's fingers.
Those envelopes are also changing rapidly.
Forty-five high-grade mystic stones...
Twenty-two Level 4 resources...
Twenty-five Level 5 resources...
Thirty-eight Level 6 resources...
Forty-six level-seven resources...
Nineteen Level 8 resources...
And the remaining level nine resources.
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As Zhong Cai looked through them, she gradually put away the resources.
During the inspection, those of lower quality were simply placed in the ordinary resource hall, while those worthy of auction were carefully collected into the gift hall as candidates.
Not long after Zhong Cai selected all the guaranteed level 9 resources, the 22nd ten-pull was successfully completed.
In addition to the guaranteed 22 items, there are also three naturally occurring level 9 resources.
Zhong Cai was in a great mood, and her smile was very bright when she looked at Wu Shaogan.
"I told you we'd be lucky this time!"
Wu Shaogan nodded earnestly to Zhong Cai and gave him a thumbs up.
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